Authors

Edvard Moser, Ph.D.

Edvard Moser, Ph.D., is director and a founder
of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Norway, as well as
co-director of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology. His work, conducted with
May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid
cells in the entorhinal cortex, which provides the first clues to a neural
mechanism for the metric of spatial mapping. In 2013, he, his wife, and mentor
John O’Keefe were awarded Columbia University’s Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for
discoveries that have illuminated how the brain calculates location and
navigation. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and
Letters, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was awarded a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University
of Oslo in 1995.